Haven’t We Heard This All Before?
Despite his prior assurances to bring the estate tax repeal to a vote before the end of last summer, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist announced in remarks for the Conservative Political Action Conference that he would both bring a proposal to reduce or repeal the federal estate tax to a vote in May, and schedule a vote in June on a proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage.
“The days of the death tax are numbered,” Frist said yesterday, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
We shall see.
